Battle of the jungle cats culminates Victoria Inter-Block
Belfield Tigers battle Mid Section Lions in Sunday’s finale The annual Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports Inter-Block Football competition at the East Coast village of Victoria will culminate Sunday at the Victoria Community Centre Ground. The triple header card kicks off from 17:00 hours with the first of two grudge matches. Buxton Under-17 will [...]
NBS assists in refurbishing school library
Recently, the New Building Society Limited (NBS) answered the call of Vryman’s Erven Secondary to assist in refurbishing the school’s Science Laboratory. Over the years, the lab has deteriorated, and in a self-initiated gesture the NBS decided to assist in its improvement, to facilitate easier learning and make it more comfortable for the students and [...]
Maybe the ‘Peeper’ has access to some other Aljazeera TV
Dear Editor, Your columnist “Peeping Tom” made some mindless observations in his column titled “Iran will resist.” I’m having a hard time digesting that the column appeared in a local newspaper and not that of an Iranian government propaganda rag. From watching the western media, I never got the impression that they were trying to [...]
Barnwell impresses in national U-19 practice match
By Sean Devers Guyana senior player Christopher Barnwell smashed a belligerent 72 and then took 2-10 from 7 overs by the close of the opening day of the 3-day practice match for the Guyana team preparing for this year’s regional Under-19 cricket series in Jamaica from July 9. Barnwell smashed 10 fours and a six [...]
Employees in UNAMCO ‘ambush’ still in custody
Police yesterday continued to question two men in connection with the gunning down on 34-year-old Thakoor Persaud on Tuesday on the UNAMCO trail. Sources close to the investigation say that the two men were first questioned separately at the Wismar and Mackenzie Police Stations. They are at present being detained at Mackenzie. They were traveling [...]
Munroe responds to KN’s article
Refutes naming team By Edison Jefford General Secretary of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), Godfrey Munroe has refuted naming the national senior team in a June 18 interview with Kaieteur News in a letter dated June 26, 2009. “Let me make [it] pellucidly clear that at no point in time [have] I ever in [...]
Is Rodney’s piece on Barbados immigration into British Guiana a fraction of historical irony?
Dear Editor, There is an interesting historical backdrop to the present discussion and debate in the press on the treatment of Guyanese in Barbados. It comes from the pen of the late Walter Rodney. In a little known piece, “Barbadian Immigration into British Guiana 1863-1924” delivered at a conference of Caribbean historians in 1977. Rodney [...]
More than 100 women graduate from CIOG development programme
A total of 117 women from various West Coast Demerara villages and from East Bank Essequibo graduated from the “Livelihood development programme for rural women” yesterday This project trained the women for six months in catering and sewing and was put together by the Human Concern International (HCI) organization in collaboration with the National Committee [...]
Guyana’s pork is healthy – WHO
The World Health Organisation has stated that the H1N1 virus commonly referred to as the ‘Swine Flu’ is not a food or animal health issue since it is being transmitted from human to human. However, this has since declared that Guyana’s pork is safe for consumption. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, local health and [...]
BFA Coca Cola senior League continues this weekend
Competition in the Berbice Football Association (BFA) Coca Cola Senior League tournament continues tomorrow and Sunday with matches slated for venues on both sides of the Berbice River. At Blairmont # 3 Ground tomorrow from 4:00pm, Barzilla take on Mahaicony United in a battle of the underdogs. Sunday at the same venue at 2:00pm Real [...]
ADAM FORMING NEWSPAPER
Any problems Adam Harris has are about to end. He will soon become a rich man and all his worries and fears about the future will soon be a thing of the past. Adam is opening his own newspaper. Seriously! It will be called Newsday Guyana. An online version of the newspaper is under construction [...]
Scotia Bank makes timely deposit to boxing promotion
Ansa McAl lends support They say that when it rains it pours. This old adage could not have been more firmly endorsed than yesterday when organizers of this weekend’s boxing card received another timely monetary contribution to offset the huge expenses incurred in the promotion of the card. Following closely on the heels of substantial [...]
Jagdeo advisors have failed him
Dear Editor, The President is gallivanting out of Guyana with his bowl of cash. Why doesn’t he spend more of his time making life better for this nation? One daily newspaper mentioned the monies he expect to get for his gratuity (some $500 million), but what about the billions the Value Added Tax is making [...]
Swine Flu not yet at crisis situation – CDERA coordinator
The 18th council meeting of Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) kicked off yesterday at Cara Lodge, Georgetown, with emphasis being placed on mainstreaming disaster management and climate change adaptation. Representatives of member states of CDERA also discussed the issue of the H1N1 virus (Swine Flu). Coordinator of CDERA, Jeremy Collymore, told members of the [...]
Disposal of tyres at dumpsite is a major challenge – Mayor Green
The efforts exhorted by the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown to manage Le Repentir dumpsite are compromised by the frequent disposal of used tyres at the facility. According to City Mayor Hamilton Green, the municipality has on several occasions requested that Central Government prevent the importation of the tyres that do not last for [...]
We need to look at ourselves as one
Dear Editor, Having read so many letters which can be seen as politically motivated, I am pressed to express my frustrated feelings towards many of these letter writers. For too long some of these writers have been taking many of us Guyanese for a long ride down the most destructive path; the “pit of abyss”, [...]
Tarron Khemraj continues to hurt himself
Dear Editor, Tarron Khemraj in his letter in Kaieteur News on June 25, 2009, with the title, “Daly’s outpouring of the ‘fundamental principles of democracy’ is suspicious at best; and it attempts to propose working solutions. However, he once again rationalises all issues based on the implicit economic benchmarks of the developed world; grossly unfair [...]
Dispute over dumped loam ends in violent confrontation
Dwayne St Hill, a 28-year-old Graphic Artist, of 27 Dowding Street, Kitty, was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail on a charge of threatening language against Daneswar Singh. St. Hill’s charge stemmed from an incident on June 20, at Sandy Babb Street, Kitty. It was further alleged that on the same day he unlawfully and maliciously [...]
Governance policies negatively affect the dreams and aspirations of families
Dear Editor, Sadly, yet another woman dies at the hands of a man. Domestic violence and many other social ills are usually blamed on the small man. This tradition which was part of the colonial mindset continues. Governments usually spew a lot of rhetoric about families being the foundation stone of the society, yet they [...]
Nuff people going to Michael Jackson wake
Dem boys lef wid dem mouth open de other day when Priya get vex because de Waterfalls paper ask if dem moving de pavement dwellers because de Caricom summit coming. Was a simple question and if is not true then you got to explain that is not true. Is like when Roger Luncheon mek a [...]
Condemned prisoners on hunger strike
A group of condemned prisoners at the Camp Street Prison has reportedly gone on a hunger strike to protest the restriction of certain items that form part of their diet. The inmates who are housed on the Number 3 Landing have been refusing their meals since Wednesday, and are calling for the intervention of the [...]
Regional Democratic Council to install sanitary blocks in Berbice River schools
Recognizing that toilet facilities used in communities between Ituni and Develdt are outdated and grossly inadequate, Regional Executive Officer, Henry Rodney, has said that the Regional Democratic Council plans to eliminate pit latrines. These are to be replaced by sanitary blocks at schools in the Upper Berbice River. Rodney said that the current systems used, [...]
Six-member Guyana Golf team for Barbados tourney
Guyana will be represented by a six-man team at this weekend’s Barbados Open Golf championships at the Royal Westmoreland Golf Club in Bridgetown. The six golfers – Alfred Mentore, Lester Alvis, Ian Gouveia, Clifford Reis, Mike Guyadin and captain of the Lusignan Golf Club Jerome Khan left Guyana yesterday (Thursday) for the Caribbean island and [...]
Man perishes after overturned tractor pins him
A 40-year old tractor driver was pronounced dead on arrival yesterday at the Fort Wellington Hospital minutes after he was pinned by the vehicle. Inderjeet Rai, of 234 Plantation Hope, West Coast Berbice, was pulled from under the tractor he was driving in a rice field at Bath Backdam early yesterday morning. Kaieteur News understands [...]
Is Guyana dead or dying?
One of Guyana’s most prominent citizens, very well educated, with lots of money and also a strident critic of the Jagdeo presidency, said to me on the telephone on Monday morning, that he is losing hope about change in Guyana. We talked and we looked at how disappointing are so many persons and organizations in [...]
